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In National First, Maine’s Legislature Votes To Ban Spreading Of Pfas Laden Sludge And Compost Derived From Sludge
Policy
15 Apr 2022
The legislature voted overwhelmingly today to end the use of industrial and municipal sewage sludge as fertilizer.
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PFAS bill would expand regulation of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Policy
12 Apr 2022
Alaska lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand testing and regulations for trace amounts of PFAS chemicals in groundwater that’s been linked to cancer and other serious health conditions.
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PFAS: The ‘Forever Chemicals’ You Couldn’t Escape if You Tried
News
12 Apr 2022 | The New York Times
Based on nothing more than their name, PFAS certainly doesn’t sound like something you’d want to find in your burger wrapper.
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Maine guides have a simple solution for avoiding PFAS in freshwater fish
News
12 Apr 2022 | Bangor Daily News
Maine’s consideration of issuing more “do not eat” advisories for the state’s freshwater fish is another blow for anglers who have already had to modify their practices due to mercury pollution.
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Effect of Plasma and Blood Donations on Levels of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Firefighters in Australia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Science
12 Apr 2022 | JAMA Netw Open
Regular blood or plasma donations result in a significant reduction in serum PFAS levels for participant firefighters with a baseline PFOS level of 5 ng/mL or more; plasma donations reduced levels more quickly than blood donations.
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Thermal processing reduces PFAS concentrations in blue food - A systematic review and meta-analysis
Science
12 Apr 2022 | Environ Pollut
An increase in cooking time and liquid/animal tissue ratio and a shorter PFAS chain length was associated with significant reductions in PFAS concentrations in seafood.
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Want single-use foodware without harmful chemicals? A new certification will help you find it
News
11 Apr 2022 | Environmental Health News
Here’s a secret about single-use foodware: brands and manufacturers don’t have to tell what’s in it, and in some cases, they don’t even know.
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Exploring the origin of efficient adsorption of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in household point-of-use water purifiers: Deep insights from a joint experimental and computational study
Science
11 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Household point-of-use water purifiers using activated carbon can achieve up to 99% removal of 14 legacy and emerging PFAS in tap water.
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New Washington state bill is the “fastest timeline in the nation” for phasing out PFAS
Policy
7 Apr 2022
A new Washington state bill, signed into law last Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee, aims to phase out PFAS in select consumer products by 2025.
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EPA Releases National PFAS Datasets Data Collection Tool
Policy
6 Apr 2022
Recently, EPA published a compilation of National PFAS Datasets that include a substantial amount of data regarding sources of PFAS across the country.
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Washington PFAS Law Takes Aim At Consumer Goods
Policy
5 Apr 2022
On March 31, 2022, Washington’s Governor signed into law a bill that significantly accelerates the state’s initiative to develop regulations for various consumer goods that contain PFAS.
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Extracting and Comparing PFAS from Literature and Patent Documents using Open Access Chemistry Toolkits
Science
31 Mar 2022 | Comput. Theor. Chem.
Three open access chemical information toolkits were used to automatically search for PFAS based on structure, and all yielded different results. Overall, ~1.7 million PFAS were identified from patents and ~27 thousand from COnnecting REpositories (CORE).
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ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards, 2022 Update
Policy
31 Mar 2022
This March 2022 update reflects the addition of three states and new regulatory and scientific activities that have occurred over the past year. ECOS will continue to update it annually as appropriate.
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Years after flags, Wolverine Worldwide plant caught in PFAS probe
News
30 Mar 2022 | MLive
Investigators have finally made their way to a Wolverine Worldwide facility where the company manufactured shoe parts near the Rogue River, five years after the initial discovery of widespread toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the northern Kent County suburbs.
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‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis
News
22 Mar 2022 | The Guardian
Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast.